CO2 emissions embodied in international trade of China, 1997–2007

The growing global attentions to Chinese CO₂ emission are always accompanied by the ignorance of the fact that the CO₂ emissions from exported China-made products accounts for a significant part in China´s green house gas emissions growth. In this paper, CO₂ emission intensity is taken as a basis for estimating the CO₂ emissions in Chinese import and export trading, further the net CO₂ emissions is calculated. According to research results, from 1997 to 2007, China had been a net CO₂ exporter and seen a stable annual increase in the proportion of the net CO₂ emissions in international trade to the total CO₂ emissions, which could be summed up as “pollution at home, consumption overseas”.